Fave Photo: Krimstein, Byrnes, and Eckstein
A photo of three terrif New Yorker cartoonists taken this week in the Toddlin’ Town. From left to right: Ken Krimstein, Bob Eckstein, and Pat Byrnes.
Mr. Krimstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2000. Visit his website here.
Mr. Eckstein began contributing in 2007. Visit his website here.
Mr. Byrnes began contributing in 1998. Visit his website here.
–photo courtesy of ken Krimstein
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Now That’s A Cover!
Looking throughThe Complete Book Of Covers From The New Yorker: 1925-1989 (Knopf, 1989) I always discover covers I’ve never focused on before. It’s almost as if, some 35 years after I bought the book, I’m looking through for the first time. For those who love golden age New Yorker covers, and don’t have the book: it won’t let you down.
Today, while flipping through, I stopped at this June 3, 1933 cover by the great Adolph Kronengold. It’s one of twenty-two covers he contributed to the magazine over nineteen years.
The way Mr. Kronengold blanketed much of the entire piece in silhouette was one reason I noticed it. The other reason: the woman stepping across from train car-to-train car. It’s a small city moment, beautifully captured. John Updike, who contributed the Foreword of Complete Book of Covers said this:
“Adolph K. Kronengold and Witold Gordon and, in certain works, Charles E. Martin, Roger Duvoisin, Ludwig Bemelmans,, and Edna Eicke, as time went on, explore the possibility that a broad, well-chosen sampling of New York’s architectural and human muchness is enough of a pictorial event to front the magazine.”